Again, if you are interested in my personal opinion, I shall put it like this: quite apart from my believing the Bible to be the inspired and authoritative word of God, on scientific grounds alone I have never been able to accept the theory of evolution. The difficulties I am left with, if I accept the theory of evolution, are altogether greater than the few residual difficulties I am left with when I accept the biblical record.

But lest you may think that this is simply my own opinion, let me read you one or two statements from some authorities in these matters for you to see how I substantiate my statement. There was a biologist called Delage, who believed in evolution, and this is what he said:
'One is or is not a conformist (that is to say, a believer in evolution) not so much from motives deduced from natural history as from motives based on personal philosophic opinion.'
Here is a man who believes in evolution and he says what really determines a man's view is not so much his scientific knowledge as his scientific opinion. He goes on to say;
'If one takes his stand upon the exclusive ground of fact, it must be acknowledged that the formation of one species from another species has not been demonstrated at all.'
And that was a man who believed in evolution and was a great biologist.

Another scientist has said,
'Darwinism is more a religion than a science.'
It is, he says, not so much a question of scientific fact as of a person's ultimate outlook. In this way, he says, the idea of evolution has become a sacred conviction of thousands, a conviction that no longer has anything to do with unbiased scientific research.

This point of view was echoed by Professor D. M. F. Watson who once said in a broadcast,
'Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists, not because it has been observed to occur, or can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.'

I could go on quoting to you. Others — Sir Arthur Keith, for instance — admits that evolution is
'a basic dogma of rationalism'.

Then let me give you just one other statement. A Fellow of the Royal Society (and to be a Fellow of the Royal Society is the greatest distinction a scientist can have in this country or in any other) once remarked that it is 'professional suicide' for a biologist to attack evolution. In other words, it is a dogma involving feeling and heat, and a man who ventures, even in spite of these facts, to say that he does not believe in it is a man who is more or less committing 'professional suicide'.

But there are certain great names in the realm of science who have never accepted it. Sir Ambrose Fleming, Sir William Shelton, and many others whom I could mention to you. But let me just give you two final quotations:
the only statement, writes one biologist, that science can make is to make her feel that she knows nothing about the origin of man.
We have reached, says another, 'a stage of very general scepticism'.

And, therefore, we must realise that all that is being taught and constantly asserted is nothing but a theory, without proof. It is a form of dogmatism, an anti-God religion. That does not apply, of course, to the theistic evolutionist, but, speaking generally, it describes the others. This, therefore, makes it doubly distressing that all too often the media refuse to allow the anti-evolution view to be stated. This, of course, just confirms the prejudice that is involved. In spite of these admissions by various scientists, the prejudice is such that the other side is not even allowed to speak for itself.

Thus it seems very clear that we are facing, not a problem of science, but a problem of a spirit and an attitude that is antagonistic to God, and whose concern, as some of these scientists have been ready to admit, is to prove that the earth could not have started as the Bible says. Here, therefore, we leave this consideration of the relationship of the biblical account of creation to the popular and prevailing scientific opinion. I have not had time to deal with the theistic evolutionists, but I can-not understand people who are ready to accept the theory of evolution in the absence of proof to allow themselves to be placed in difficulty.

Let us never compromise the truth of God to fit any scientific theory. The time will soon come when that scientific theory, if it contradicts the Bible, will be replaced by another. So we must never allow our position to be determined for us by the passing theories or current of so-called scientific opinion. Let us hold to the truth as it is revealed and ever, I repeat, with an open mind listen to facts that are placed before us. But let us shake ourselves entirely free from this pseudo-scientific dogmatism that so often masquerades in the guise of a truly scientific spirit.